Thursday, November 29, 2007

Why this day in age you'd choose to play this song is beyond me, but the University of Arizona made local news yesterday by pumping fake crowd noise into practice and blasting Phil Collins' In The Air Tonight......

Fake crowd noise caused a very real headache on Wednesday for those living near Arizona Stadium.

The University of Arizona Police Department received numerous noise complaints from surrounding homes during the UA football team’s two-hour practice inside the stadium. Wildcats coaches pumped in crowd noise, complete with tape of a public-address announcer, to replicate the gameday atmosphere in their final full-bore practice of the regular season.

The noise blared from about 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Arizona coaches capped practice by piping in Phil Collins’ “In the Air Tonight”.

That's an odd choice to say the least. The song doesn't really make me want to go hit someone. If I was a neighbor and they were playing 'Let The Bodies Hit The Floor' or something, I'd probably be upset. But 'In The Air Tonight'? You just chill and wait for that sweet ass drum solo right???

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Seriously, that's reason #1,647 to dislike the NFL compared to college. You hear a real band instead of the same ten "let's get the crowd pumped up" songs you've heard for the last 20 years. And any college that plays shit like that instead of having a real band should be banished to Division II.

Officially there were 15 noise complaints to the cops. The next night they had no noise pumped in at all. Someone on the team told me that when they would line up during this practice session he couldn't even hear the guy next to him.